Online Collections Created with eMuseum Take on New Importance
Amid widespread museum closures around the world, many institutions have rallied and inspired us by finding creative ways to share their museum collections online, from publishing entire exhibits to livestreaming special [...]
How Museums Can Obtain Emergency Coronavirus Funding
Faced by mounting financial tensions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many museum professionals are feeling uncertain about the future of their institutions. With their core operations disrupted and doors closed to the public [...]
NEW YORK CITY, March 12, 2020 – Launching Collections Management into the New Decade
Gallery Systems is proud to announce the release of TMS Collections 2020, its scalable, user-friendly, and powerful web-based collections management software designed to help museums streamline processes. TMS Collections is [...]
Grants Guides for Museums Located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Spain, and the United Kingdom
This New Year brings not only the start of a nominal decade, the twenty-twenties, but also an extra day to move your museum’s projects forward. Along with these events [...]
As museums continue to generate more and more digital assets, it becomes increasingly clear how important it is to find the right Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) for your institution. New digital assets are constantly added through existing Museum Collections Management Software: new additions to collections come with accompanying digital media and current collections [...]
Selecting a collections management system (CMS) can be a daunting task. One way to make the selection process easier is to create a detailed Request for Proposals (RFP) and send it to the suppliers you have shortlisted. This will help you compare suppliers, as well as their service and software offering. An RFP, along [...]
All wrapped up! In April 2019, Gallery Systems welcomed over 100 members of the TMS family to Collective Imagination 2019, held in beautiful Dublin, Ireland. This was the 9th anniversary of the event, which takes place every 18 months, and was surely the best yet. Over 50 attendees joined us for fourteen workshop sessions, followed [...]
As 2019 rolls around, the start of the new year brings new museum grants and funding opportunities. You have a list of great ideas and projects that you’ve been thinking about executing, and now is the best time to figure out how to accomplish those goals. Sifting through grants takes time and it may feel [...]
Small museums and collections have the power to make huge impacts on their community, both inside and outside of the galleries. Museum collections, large and small, pack a powerful punch, while relying on a set of collections management standards to maintain collections objects and protecting works to share with a larger community. However, small museums [...]
All museums have three tenets that bind them together: 1. Museums acquire and preserve objects ethically 2. Museums advance the knowledge of cultures through studying those objects 3. Museums share that knowledge and their objects with their public These three tenets bind the museum community at large, and can be found within the majority of [...]
